Book

In Essential Pépin, the companion book to the television series, Jacques Pépin hand-picks and updates his favorite recipes from a career that has spanned six decades. The book shares and celebrates Jacques’ life in food with recipes that find the shortest, surest route to flavor, avoiding complicated techniques.

Essential Pépin spans the many styles of Jacques’s cooking: homey country French, haute cuisine, fast food Jacques-style, and fresh contemporary American dishes. Many of the recipes are globally inspired, from Mexico, across Europe, or the Far East.

In the accompanying searchable DVD, Jacques shines as a teacher, as he demonstrates all the techniques a cook needs to know. This truly is the essential Pépin.